`This is a textbook for the times, which addresses itself brilliantly to the twin phenomena of expanding horizons and diminishing resources of English studies.' - David Lodge

Literary Studies in Action (Interface)

Literature & Fiction

Durant, Alan

Fabb, Nigel

British & Irish

Routledge

In Sentence Structure, Nigel Fabb outlines the main aspects of English sentence structure. Sentence Structure: <ul>
<li>is based on a problem-solving approach to language</li> <li>can be used as an introduction to English grammar and/or to the theory of syntax</li> <li>teaches a simple method for confident and accurate sentence analysis</li> <li>contains over eighty practical exercises</li> <li>includes sample sentences from four Asian and African languages to provide a basis for comparative linguistics. 
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Sentence Structure (Language Workbooks)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Ways of Reading is now an even more effective text for readers who want to increase their abilities to analyze and interpret both literary and non-literary texts. This new edition features added coverage of email and internet styles, print journalism, radio and television texts, and literary texts including preformance, drama, oral poetry and film adaptation.

Mills, Sara

Montgomery, Martin

Furniss, Tom

History & Criticism

Sentence Structure: <ul>
<li>introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose</li> <li>is based on a problem-solving approach to language</li> <li>teaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrative</li> <li>uses simple tree structures to analyse sentences</li> <li>contains numerous exercises to encourage practical skills of sentence analysis</li> <li>includes a database and exercises that compare the structure of English with other languages.</li>
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The second edition of Sentence Structure has been revised and updated throughout and includes new material on tense, aspect, modality and the verb phrase, whilst the order of topics has been rearranged to improve clarity.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Ways of Reading is a well-established core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyze and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: <ul>
<li>techniques and problem-solving</li> <li>language variation</li> <li>attributing meaning</li> <li>poetic uses of language</li> <li>narrative</li> <li>media texts.</li> </ul> This third edition has been redesigned and updated throughout with many fresh examples and exercises, updated further reading suggestions and new material on electronic sources and the Internet, language and power, and drama.

The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature

MacCabe, Colin

Attridge, Derek

Meter in Poetry: A New Theory

Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which is illustrated with detailed analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, classical Greek and Latin, Sanskrit, classical Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Latvian. This outstanding contribution to the study of meter is aimed both at students and scholars of literature and languages, as well as anyone interested in knowing how metrical verse is made.

Halle, Morris

Cambridge University Press

Language and Literary Structure: The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative

This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. He offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry, based on pragmatic theory. He provides a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects.

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Literary Studies in Action (Interface)

Sentence Structure (Language Workbooks)

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Sentence Structure (Language Workbooks)

Sentence Structure (Language Workbooks)

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature

Meter in Poetry: A New Theory

Language and Literary Structure: The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative